Three things to know about the multimillion dollar waste station project
The city of Gastonia held a ribbon cutting this month to celebrate the completion of a $9.8 million waste station located in Cramerton.
The Armstrong Ford Regional Pump Station is the first step of several to come in Gastonia’s long-term sewer and wastewater improvement plan.
Here is what you need to know about the new facility:
Background
In a previous interview, Gastonia’s Director of Development Services Rusty Bost said that the city began to notice expansion would be heading toward the southeastern side of Gaston County several years ago.
That portion of the county is in line to be served by Two Rivers Utilities, a utility service created by the merging of Cramerton and Gastonia’s existing services in 2011.
Following that realization, the city created a plan to update existing structures and create new structures that would be large and efficient enough to replace several smaller ones, according to Bost.
Construction on this facility began in October 2021 after the city received funding from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund through the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
Stats
According to city spokeswoman Mary Elliott, the Armstrong Ford Regional Pump Station is expected to serve 18,000 new residents in the future.
It will allow incoming residents settling in southeastern Gaston County to opt for municipal water and sewer.
The flow capacity of the new station is 18 million gallons per day, which Elliott says is the largest in the city’s service.
Future
In July, the North Carolina Local Government Commission approved a $42 million revenue bond for the city of Gastonia.
That money will be used to continue work on the water and sewer improvements, and build another new waste station, according to Bost.
That bond will be repaid in the form of new-user fees added to every new home built that uses city water and sewer.
This article originally appeared on The Gaston Gazette: Phase one of water and sewer improvements complete
